Update: Architects of the West Kingdom: Works of Wonder has launched on Kickstarter, and the campaign will run for 15 days. You may pledge for the expansion only, or for the expansion, the Collector's Box and the playmat, or order everything released for Architects of the West Kingdom so far. Our preview post below was published on July 21. Works of Wonder is an expansion for the 1-5 player worker placement game Architects of the West Kingdom. You will compete (against an AI)

Update: Paladins of the West Kingdom: City of Crowns is live on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 16 days. This campaign also offers a Collector's box for all the Paladins content. Every other Garphil Games game is available as an add-on. Our preview post below was published on February 11. The 1-4 player worker placement game Paladins of the West Kingdom returns to Kickstarter with a new expansion (City of Crowns) and a Big Box Collector's edition with a mini-expansi

Update: Shelfie Stacker has launched on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 29 days. There is only one pledge option for the game or multiple copies. Our preview post below was published on June 7. Shelfie Stacker is a 1-4 player dice drafting game about arranging board games on your shelves. It is designed by Shem Phillips, and it will launch on Kickstarter on June 11. The solo mode is a beat-your-own score with an AI that may prevent you from taking the dice you want.

Renegade Game Studios has opened their pre-order system for Shem Phillips' Raiders of Scythia. This is a reimplementation of Phillips' Raiders of the North Sea with a few mechanical differences and, of course, a new theme. Garphill Games will open their own pre-orders later this year. European customers will have to wait a few more months too. Raiders of Scythia is a 1-4 player worker placement and hand management game. You play as a Scythian warrior (one of eight available,

Update: Viscounts of the West Kingdom has launched on Kickstarter, and the campaign will run for 16 days. You can pledge for just the game (also offered in other languages) or add The West Kingdom Tomesaga and metal coins, or go all-in and get the whole West Kingdom bundle. Our preview post below was published on March 2. Viscounts of the West Kingdom is the final part of the West Kingdom trilogy by designers Shem Phillips and SJ Macdonald (the other two games being Architect

If you have never played a COIN game (COunter INsurgency, a game system developed by Volko Ruhnke for a series of games published by GMT), but wonder if it is something you may enjoy, The Coin Tribes' Revolt: Boudica's Rebellion Against Rome is a good, inexpensive opportunity. I fell in this category myself until recently, when I stumbled across a printed copy of the Tribes at the UKGE, and grabbed it to see if the quadripartite system appeals to me. I don't intend this post